New York
Montgomery Communications, New York/Vamizi Island in the Quirimbas Archipelago of Northern Mozambique, and Kaya Mawa, luxury resort on Likoma Island in Lake Malawi, for PR.
MWW, New York/ServiceMagic, a unit of IAC/InterActiveCorp which offers resources and a database of home improvement articles, videos and Do-It-Yourself tips, to introduce a new communications strategy targeting consumer and business audiences. MWW offices in Denver and San Francisco are assisting.
East
Vitamin, Baltimore/13th Floor, catering/eatery venue located at The Belvedere in Mount Vernon, for brand messaging, print collateral, marketing-communications, website, and media relations.
Midwest
Roop & Co., Cleveland/Jacobs Real Estate Services, brokerage, leasing and management services for owners of office buildings, specialized use facilities and mixed-use developments, for strategic comms. counsel, media relations and web development, and Koinonia, services for Ohioans with intellectual and developmental disabilities, for branding urban farm initiative, Rising Harvest Farms, which produces organic food and provides work experience for participants.
Mountain West
JohnstonWells, Denver/Allonhill, financial services, for a PR program as the company works to build credibility in the mortgage industry through mortgage due diligence and credit risk management services.
West
LANE PR, Portland, Ore./InFocus, digital display technology, for launch of its Modopad presentation tool; Digital Domain Media Group, digital production company, for PR counsel, and Network Redux, web hosting, for media relations.
Nadel Phelan, Scotts Valley, Calif./SSH Communications Security, data security, as AOR for PR to drive awareness of the SSH Information Assurance Platform with customers, partners, media and analysts.
Blaze PR, Los Angeles/KeVita, organic sparkling probiotic drinks, for a PR program, including a media relations, social media strategy and execution, as well as promoting contests and events.
Europe
Teamspirit PR, London/Henderson Global Investors, for media relations for its investment trust business. Teamspirit is part of Chime Communications.
Bite Communications, London/Spil Games, online gaming, for a European brief targeting consumer and B2B audiences in the U.K. and France, broadening globally, including a launch in the U.S., in the second half of 2012. Marco Bilello, head of consumer for Bite in the U.K., heads the account, picked up following a competitive three-way pitch.
China
Ogilvy PR, Hong Kong/Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corp., statutory organisation set up in 2001 by the Government of Hong Kong, to enhance awareness of its role "in building a diverse economy by fostering technological innovations in Hong Kong."